Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Catholic University Rejects Pro-Life Speaker, OKs Peter Singer

Catholic Fordham University is coming under fire from pro-life advocates for rejecting a pro-life speaker but then deciding it is okay to bring pro-infanticide speaker Peter Singer to campus.
Fordham University’s president Fr. Joseph McShane, S.J. determined conservative and pro-life author Ann Coulter was too “hateful and needlessly provocative” to speak on campus. But, as the Cardinal Newman Society indicates, Fordham hosted Singer at a conference entitled “Conference with Peter Singer: Christians and Other Animals: Moving the Conversation Forward.”
Matthew Archbold, of the CNS group that serves as a watchdog for Catholic colleges and universities, writes more about it:

For those unfamiliar with Singer, Joe Carter at First Things summed up Singer’s ethics this way:

Singer has spent a lifetime justifying the unjustifiable. He is the founding father of the animal liberation movement and advocates ending “the present speciesist bias against taking seriously the interests of nonhuman animals.” He is also a defender of killing the aged (if they have dementia), newborns (for almost any reason until they are two years old), necrophilia (assuming it’s consensual), and bestiality (also assuming it’s consensual).

Nevertheless, not only is the Jesuit university hosting the infanticide-supporting philosopher, but the description of the conference at Fordham Notes even goes so far as to call Singer “the most influential philosopher alive today”:

This panel, conducted with non-specialists in mind, will provoke Christians to think about other animals in new ways. Currently a very hot topic in academic theology and philosophy, concern for non-human animals is gaining traction in the broader culture, and our panel will try to connect academic and popular themes, in language that is accessible to a broad audience.
Peter Singer—in addition to being the most influential philosopher alive today—was the intellectual heft behind the beginning of the animal rights movement in the 1970s. David Clough is one of the leading voices in defense of animals in the contemporary Christian conversation, and Eric Meyer’s research has mined the Christian tradition in ways that turn the current debate about animals on its head.

Be assured, this is not a Peter Singer scandal. This is a Fordham scandal. The moderator of the event is Charles Camosy, a Fordham theologian. It’s interesting that Camosy would moderate as he’s defended Singer’s work in the past, even going so far as comparing Singer with Pope John Paul II. In a piece called Peter Singer Is Not the Antichrist, Camosy showed that he understood Singer’s position on issues but still found a comparison with the beloved Pope accurate.
The Cardinal Newman Society contacted Fordham University’s administration this morning but “have received only silence thus far.”

2 comments:

As someone with over 20 years of contact with Fordham's theology department as a graduate student and adjunct professor, I am sickened but not surprised as the state of degradation of the former shining star of theology and academics. Over the years I watched Fordham’s theology department and the rest of the university replace its Catholic beliefs and identity with secular, atheistic, anti-Catholic teaching by Catholics. Fr. Joseph McShane shows his true colors here in silencing the conservative voice by shaming the Republican Fordham group to not have Ann Coulter to speak on campus, and yet welcomes Peter Singer who may be very charming, but advocates the killing of the elderly, infants and the handicapped, and many other horrendous Nazi-like beliefs and actions. It is true that Ann Coulter is often consciously abrasive in her critique of the liberal agenda, but she is honest and deserves to be heard in what once was a free America. McShane has gone over the edge of the moral cliff. What does he think about when he prays to the founder of his order, St. Ignatius? Does he think at all? Does he pray? Does he really believe that Ignatius would agree with him on this? Shame on McShane. The goal of Fordham has been to compete with ivy league schools by jettisoning the value of the Catholic Church and religious order who founded it. It will not last, and it should not be allowed to be called Catholic.

Al Kresta is one of them: http://avemariaradio.net/christian-radio-host.php/Al-Kresta/

Kresta and I have gone back and forth live on air before.... with him spewing his hate-filled Islamaphobia and his crying about wars not being 'intrinsically evil', like abortion, to which I replied "No kidding Al, we're talking about just and unjust wars, not intrinsic evil".

What a liar and a fraud Kresta is, one of the pro-war necon "Catholics" who are not. Red Herrings do not equate to Catholic moral theology Al. Deal with the issue of the ongoing unjust wars which are a part of the Culture of Death.

"For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds." ~ Saint Paul the Apostle (1 Corinthians 11:13-15)

See: VIDEO - http://youtu.be/Hh6xVz8uuo8

See also: http://ajmacdonaldjr.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/catholics-who-did-911/